Within the framework of the Riga Latvian Society implemented project SIF EEZ NGO DAP Stand hard, Work Bravely No..2012. EEZ/DAP/MAC/068/1/NAC/054/2015 the Riga Latvian Society members went to Ērgļi on May 18, 2015 to visit and clean-up the memorial sites and surroundings of the Latvian cultural workers connected also with the Riga Latvian Society Rūdolfs Blaumanis and brothers Jurjāni.
The writers Rūdolfs Blaumanis (1863-1908) and musicians Jurjānu Andrejs (1856-1922) life and working road were closely connected with the work of the Riga Latvian Society. The members of the RLS, despite the changeable spring weather, had opportunity to work and also visit R.Blaumanis memorial museum Braki together with the researcher of the writers life and works and the author of the book Blaumanis tuvplānā (Blaumanis in Foreground) Anna Kuzina. The mound of R.Blaumanis in Ērgļi graveyard was also cleaned-up. The day concluded in Meņģeļi brothers Jurjāni memorial museum, where the participants discussed about the done works and the future plans at a tea cup.
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